Léon DAUDET : - Lot 170

Léon DAUDET : Charles Maurras et son temps. René Girard éditeur Paris 1928. First edition. One of 700 copies on Arches vellum, second paper after 25 Japon impérial nacré, this one no. 518. Two signed autograph letters to Jean Marchand, illustrator of this book, the first from Charles Maurras, "avec toutes les amitiés les plus reconnaissantes de [illegible] héros de ce trop beau livre, the second from Léon Daudet "à Jean Marchand qui a dessiné l'auteur mieux que moi" and dated April 32. Abundantly illustrated copy: Portrait of Maurras, certainly a draft of the one used as the frontispiece of this book, unsigned, pastedown; One in-8 handwritten page by Maurras, with small drawings in black ink and a quotation "Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois Charles Baudelaire" ("I am not the Styx to kiss you nine times, Charles Baudelaire"); Two facsimiles, of the dedication of the article La blessure intérieure (Action française, February 20, 1919) and of a note by Maurras dated December 15, 1910; Four autograph poems by Maurras, unsigned, each laminated with a typescript version opposite: "Inscription des amants pour l'hôtel Danieli à Venise" (1p in-8), "Balade de la nature du désir" (3p in-8), "Crèche Mistralienne (1p. in-8), "Au roi du festin" (1p. in-8) Autograph letter signed by Léon Daudet, dated January 15, 1929, addressed to Edouard du Mesnil. Complete autograph manuscript of "L'arrivée à Palerme. L'enthousiasme royaliste", by Léon Daudet, article published in l'Action française on April 17, 1931. Bound in-4 in half white cloth, title page in red leather, gold lettering, covers and spine preserved.